Pasadena is a medium sized, medium complexity refinery located on the Houston Ship Channel in Pasadena, Texas in the US.
The refinery is 100% owned and operated by Chevron.
The refinery primarily processes light sweet crude oil.
Complexity: 8.8
Atmospheric distillation - 116 kbpd
Vacuum distillation - 38 kbpd
FCC - 56 kbpd
Reformer - 23 kbpd - Continuous
Naphtha hydrotreater - 23 kbpd
Distillate hydrotreater - 16 kbpd
FCC gasoline hydrotreater - 45 kbpd
Alkylation - 13 kbpd - HF acid
Sulfur plant - 28 t/d
Land - 468 acres
Employees - 600
1920 - Built by Crown Oil
1923 - Crown acquired by United Central
1925 - Renamed Crown Central
1970 - Coker added (12.5 kbpd) - Foster Wheeler technology.
2005 - Refinery acquired by Astra
2007 - FCC gasoline hydrotreater added
2008 - Refinery acquired by Petrobras
2011 - Coker shut down
2012 - Coker shut down after fire
2019 - Refinery acquired by Chevron for $350MM
2024 - Expected completion of $400MM expansion of crude capacity and increased flexibility to run light crude from Permina basin, bringing total distillation capacity to 125 kbpd